Epperson v. Commonwealth

Judge Rees

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting Tom Epperson, Jr., of seduction under promise of marriage, and fixing his punishment at one year’s imprisonment.

According to the prosecutrix, she first met appellant in front of the Coffee Pot Cafe in Pineville on a Saturday night in June, 1948. Epperson was a resident of Plat Lick in Knox County, and was a student at Union College in Barbourville. On the occasion in question he was in his automobile in Pineville with Jack Williams, a fellow student. The prosecutrix was with Pauline Wilson, who knew Williams. At the invitation…